Former Rochesterian Jon "Bones" Jones defended his UFC light-heavyweight championship for the seventh consecutive time on Saturday night, beating Glover Teixeira by unanimous decision at the Baltimore Arena in front of a Jones-slanted crowd.

Repeatedly landing vicious elbows on Teixeira, Jones dominated after the second round and had the Brazilian challenger bleeding from the nose as well as developing a cut above Teixeira's left eye. Jones had the only takedown of the fight and kept Teixeira pinned against the cage for most of the fight.

"The game plan was to stick to takedowns and strike from distance," Jones said in the ring postfight interview. "I swtiched the game around to go extremely short-range, and it worked out great."

Jones landed huge blows on Teixeira in the fifth round, knocking out his mouthpiece midway through the round after several uppercuts. Teixeira was able to recover enough to land a pair of uppercuts that knocked Jones' head back but Jones recovered both times and continued his onslaught.

The judges scored the fight 50-45, 50-45 and 50-45 for Jones, who currently makes his home in Ithaca.

"I realized that I was a lot better hand fighter than he was and that's from years of years of (freestyle) wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling," Jones said. "It was a lot like we thought it would be. Glover doesn't tend to be the most versatile, so we reversed some of the things he was looking for."

With the victory, Jones' next fight would be Alexander Gustafsson, who Jones beat in a five-round epic decision in September 2013 in Toronto. That match, Jones' toughest in the UFC, was named 'Fight of the Year' by the organization.

Jones enjoyed large crowd support in Baltimore, helped in part by the city's familiarity with the Jones family. Arthur Jones was part of the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl-winning team two seasons ago and was ringside along with the other NFL player in the Jones family, Chandler.

Several of Arthur Jones' former Ravens teammates were also on hand along with Ray Lewis, who Jon Jones paid homage to before the fight by doing an impression of Lewis' famous dance when he would come out of the tunnel before games.